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Job description

Inspire Wellbeing is recruiting a compassionate and driven  Counsellor to join our Mental Health & Addiction Services team working within our Community Based Counselling Services.  This is an exciting opportunity to provide time-limited counselling interventions and co-facilitate structured psychoeducational groups for adults and children within community-based services.

Responsibilities

• Deliver individual counselling interventions to service users impacted by substance misuse and self harming behaviours, applying high fidelity, evidence informed therapeutic modalities in line with service specifications.
• Support clients experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties, including anxiety, low mood, and trauma related presentations, alongside issues that are co existing with or attributable to substance misuse and self harming behaviours.
• Support clients to understand and explore substance use/ self-harming behaviours, motivation for change, emotional regulation, and coping strategies.
• Complete brief standardised psychosocial assessments and work collaboratively with service users to agree appropriate counselling goals.
• Monitor engagement, progress, and outcomes, identify and respond appropriately to risk and escalate any immediate concerns to designated senior staff.

Skills and Qualifications

Essential Skills

• To be flexible as the role may involve travelling and working at various locations and times.
• Possess a full current driving licence and access to a car. Business Insurance is a requirement for the post.
• Consideration will be given to alternative travelling proposals in respect of applicants with a disability who cannot hold a driver’s licence.
• A professional Diploma in Counselling, covering psycho-dynamic, CBT and humanistic models of intervention or a person centred approach.
• Accreditation with voluntary assured professional standards governing bodies (e.g., BACP, BABCP, NCPS Professional Registrant Accreditation, UKCP or equivalent)
• Experience providing counselling or structured emotional support (either paid or in a voluntary capacity), with a minimum of 300 post qualified supervised counselling hours.
• Experience of working with Adults/ children impacted by Addictions and self harm.
• Demonstrable knowledge and confident application of evidence based therapeutic approaches, including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), and Motivational Interviewing (MI).
• within complex and diverse clinical presentations
• Experience or demonstrable understanding of non-abstinence, recovery-oriented approaches to substance misuse and self-harming behaviours.
• Good written, verbal, and IT skills to enable accurate clinical documentation and reporting

Further Information

Location: Elmwood Avenue, Belfast.